EA Secures Exclusive Rights for NASCAR [26-09-2003 | DH | Comments (3) ]
Electronic Arts today announced an exclusive relationship with NASCAR® for
worldwide rights to develop, publish and distribute NASCAR-branded
interactive racing games through 2009. Terms of the deals were not
disclosed. This agreement allows EA to create interactive games on a number
of gaming platforms, including consoles and PCs, using NASCAR properties.

It will take at least until 2009 for them to get this multiplayer crap they
have now any better.

Face it, they do not care, and they don't have to. There are enough Dolts
out there that do not want to bother setting up a computer much less a car
to race. They would rather sit there fat @$$ on the couch and play an
arcade racer where they win every race and lead every lap. Its another sad
day to hear this, can PFW keep up to further what we have? Or will this
hobby/sport I love die do to capitalism at its finest?

SD




"BClay" <bclay (AT) nospamcomcast (DOT) net> wrote

"SDager34" <sdager3 (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

survived.
The little kids can go play with their arcade boxes while the serious simmers will have
N2003 all to themselves.

LOL, what does capitalism haev to do with it? Papyrus decided to quit making
the games, not EA ...


"SDager34" <sdager3 (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

LOL, capitalism was all there was to it.

NASCAR could license to the developer who would make the best quality
product that would have the longest term positive impact on the
sport/industry, or, sell to the highest bidder--EA. Making decisions
seemingly with money as the only criteria is the definition of "economic
man" and rabid capitalism.

Marc


"Phillip Malphrus, Jr." <elliottfan (AT) charter (DOT) net> wrote

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:17:41 -0400, "Phillip Malphrus, Jr."
<elliottfan (AT) charter (DOT) net> wrote:

You can't make a Nascar sim if you can't get a license for it.

Jason

Makes you wonder if they really 'quit', or did they know they were going to lose
the contract to EA.


--
Tim White


"Phillip Malphrus, Jr." <elliottfan (AT) charter (DOT) net> wrote

What are you talking about? Papy was talking about making GTA3 clones a year
before N2003 ever came out ... You think its taken EA a year and a half to
do this contract???

"Marc Collins" <marc_collins (AT) sympatico (DOT) ca> wrote

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:16:43 GMT, "Tim" <nospam (AT) sum (DOT) com> wrote:

Isn't this announcement just an extension of an already exclusive
contract? I thought an exclusive contract had been announced ages
ago.

Jason

jason moyer wrote:
I believe the previous "exclusive" was for consoles only, not PC

Personally I think this would be a great opp for Papy to do an AussieV8
sim !!!


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